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NOCIRC of Iowa National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers of Iowa "Educating a New Generation for the Well Being of All Children"
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BAD MEDICINE “I refer to masturbation as one of the effects of a long foreskin; not that this vice is entirely absent in those who have undergone circumcision, though I never saw an instance in a Jewish child of very tender years, except as the result of association with children whose covered glans have naturally impelled them to the habit.” ~ M.J. Moses, M.D., “The Value of Circumcision as a Hygienic and Therapeutic Measure,” New York Medical Journal, Vol. 14-4, pp. 368-374, 1871 “Hip trouble is from falling down, an accident that children with tight foreskins are especially liable to, owing to the weakening of the muscles produced by the condition of the genitals.” ~ Lewis L. Sayer, M.D., “Circumcision for the Cure of Enuresis” [bed-wetting], Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 7, pp. 631-633, 1887 “A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutory effect upon the mind, especially if it is connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases.” ~ John Harvey Kellogg, “Treatment for Self-Abuse and Its Effects,” Plain Facts for Old and Young, p. 295, 1888 “I may indeed go further than this and avow my conviction that measures more radical than circumcision would, if public opinion permitted their adoption, would be a true kindness to many patients of both sexes.” ~ Jonathan Hutchinson, M.D., 1891 “The foreskin is an important factor in the production of tuberculosis. This can be proven by the immunity of the Jewish race from tubercular infections.” ~ S.G.A. Brown, M.D., “A Plea for Circumcision,” Medical World, 1897 “I have repeatedly seen such cases as convulsions, constant crying in infants, simulated hip joint diseases, backwardness in studies, enuresis, marasmus, muscular incoordination, paralysis, masturbation, neurasthenia, and even epilepsy, cured or greatly benefited by the proper performance of circumcision.” ~ W.G. Steele, M.D., “Importance of Circumcision,” Medical World, 1902, Vol. 20, p. 518 “Circumcision is the removal of a part of the foreskin of a male. Sometimes the hood of the clitoris of the female needs to be cut or drawn back. Sometimes the foreskin or the hood of the clitoris is so tight as to cause irritation and keep the passions excited and perhaps they are a cause of masturbation. When such is the case these operations should be performed. Parents should carefully look after these conditions as they, instead of a depraved mind, are the causes of many immoral practices.” ~ T.J. Ritter, M.D., The People’s Home Medical Book, 1910 “It is generally accepted that irritation derived from a tight foreskin may be followed by nervous phenomena, among these being convulsions and epilepsy. It is therefore not at all improbable that in many infants who die in convulsions, the real cause of death is a long or tight foreskin.” ~ Abraham L. Wolbarst, M.D., “Universal Circumcision,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 1914 “Circumcision reduces the so-called passion of which so many married men are so extremely proud, to the detriment of their wives and their married life. Many youthful rapes could be prevented, many separations, and divorces, also, and many an unhappy marriage improved if this unnatural passion was cut down by a timely circumcision." ~ L.W. Wuesthoff, M.D., Medical World, 1915 “Cancer of the penis is a very rare disease and represents only 0.4 percent of all cancers in men in the United States. Cancer of the penis generally occurs when there has been carelessness in taking care of one’s foreskin, but a man can be just about as unclean as he likes if he has been circumcised.” ~ Sherman J. Silber, M.D., The Male, 1981 “Drops of urine get mixed with smegma and that combination is highly carcinogenic.” ~ Marc Goldstein, M.D., Total Health for Men, p. 216, 1995 GOOD MEDICINE "Human beings are not born with useless body parts. The foreskin has an importance throughout the life of a man." ~ Dean Edell, M.D. "The baby boy may not consciously remember the circumcision ordeal, but the subconscious impression is indelibly imprinted, and it will influence his behavior in some way the rest of his life. He may have painful flashbacks or have certain disturbing traits and attitudes with origins unknown to him." ~ Dr. D. Cassius McKnight, "Baby Pain—Parental Shame," International Journal of Childbirth Education, Nov/Dec 1995 "The origins of circumcision are lost in antiquity. Well before it acquired religious overtones, it was clearly sacrificial, demanding the loss of something of great value." ~ Christopher Price, M.A., "Male Circumcision: An Ethical and Legal Affront," Bulletin of Medical Ethics, May 1997 "In most medical records of males in the United States, the term ‘normal male genitalia’ is used to describe men who do not, in fact, have ‘normal’ genitalia." ~ Robert S. Howe, M.D. "Why would you want to replace thousands of nerve endings with a scar?" ~ Marilyn Milos, R.N. "The risks of newborn circumcision are an underreported and ignored factor in this argument. Most often a poor surgical result is not recognized until years after the event." ~ James Snyder, M.D., past president of the Virginia Urologic Society "The research…has revealed that the earlier…a newborn baby is subjected to pain, the greater is the potential harm." ~ "New Guidelines for Management of Neonatal Pain," February 20, 2001, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine "Informed consent is meaningless when the patient himself cannot understand, consent, refuse or escape." ~ Tim Hammond, National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Men (NOHARMM) "[Some parents] seem to be totally impervious to any argument. The pain and suffering this will cause their child doesn’t work, information about anatomy and sexual function doesn’t work, reminding them of the utter perfection and sacredness of the newborn doesn’t work, trying to enlist protective instincts doesn’t work. They just want it done, and nothing you say or do will change that." ~ Mary Conant, R.N., Nurses for the Rights of the Child "But skin being clamped, smashed, cut and torn is skin being clamped, smashed, cut and torn regardless of the setting or context or who is operating the knives and instruments. It makes no difference to the baby!" ~ Rosemary Romberg, Author of Circumcision: The Painful Dilemma "It’s attitudes that need treating, not foreskins." ~ Maurene White, obstetrics nurse
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